
Education/Training Specialist VA Palo Alto Health Care System
San Francisco Bay Area

Education/Training Specialist VA Palo Alto Health Care System
San Francisco Bay Area
-Involved innovative faculty who worked effectively in cross curriculum environments to improve the delivery of instruction in all areas of education.
-Successful product manager rolling out high quality educational training material for patients at risk for cardiovascular disease.
-Content expert in disease risk management dealing with common conditions afflicting a wide cross section of the population including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, orthopedic conditions, COPD, weight management and acquired brain injuries.
-Result driven in the development of new and innovative classes and programs to increase student enrollment and retention including traditional classrooms, course taught via television and online classes.
-Effective research skills dealing with a wide variety of topics including fitness, disease management, and general health issues.
-Consulting skills involved in community outreach and public awareness programs for improving lifestyle and disease risk management.
-Successful and innovative budget management skills developing and managing annual budgets keeping program operations under control even in difficult budget years.
-Ability to work with diverse populations including socio-economic, ethnic, older adult and disabled populations.
-Extensive experience as a successful professor in Health Science, Adapted Physical Education and General Fitness programs and the post-secondary educational level.
-Successful grant development and management designing and implementing a wellness program resulting in the hiring of new faculty and staff and attracting new students to the campus.
-Effective counselor showing compassion and empathy as well as effective interventions with the students and caregivers involved in the Adapted Physical Education program at the College of San Mateo.
-Strong background in disease risk management, wellness and health.
Well rounded educator with the ability to work with a variety of people including older adults.
-Comfortable in a variety of teaching environments including the web, labs and lecture classes.
-Excellent people management skills.
-Consulting background in health related areas.
-Ability to take complicated medically based issues and simplify them for the lay person to understand.
-Global thinker.
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
November 2007 — September 2008 (11 months)
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Biotechnology industry)
November 2006 — October 2007 (1 year )
Responsible for the development of educational information for cardiovascular risk management.
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 1981 — May 2007 (26 years 5 months)
Taught Health Science and Adapted Physical Education. Health Science classes included Exercise Physiology, Exercise and the Aging Process and an online class in Wellness.
B.S., M.A. , Exercise Physiology/Adapted Physical Education , 1978 — 1983
General Education , 1976 — 1978
I enjoy time with my family I love to take cruises and enjoy travel in general Nothing like a walk in a storm!
ProMatch member
Unity Church Palo Alto
Veteran US Navy
Commission on Disabilities, San Mateo County
Board member, Poplar/Recare (non profit)
California Association of Post Secondary Educators of the Disabled (CAPED)
Governing Council, College of San Mateo